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My sister's son has long been known to have an alcohol addiction problem and has even been trying to land a job in one of their local bars lately in Bozeman, MT. Well, he has some refection to do now as he applied for a job in the downtown area bar of "Boodles", but was never hired. That's good for him as someone else now, (who might have been opening up the bar in the morning,) disappeared when the whole place blew to bits from a natural gas leak: http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/Bozemanexplosion.jpg Story link: http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/category.asp?C=50432&nav=menu227_3
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Breaking rocks at Robben Island Prison, South Africa http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/robbenislandprison.jpg These poor guys probably didn't deserve this kind of "hard labor", but modern day, high tech money thieves sure do.
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1:04 min Youtube video of a Cushman "gang" taking off. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yMmL-N3cWM]YouTube - Cushman Scooter Gang[/ame] I was surprised at the exhaust note rumble of the whole bunch, but some bystander sure thought that it was funny.
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I don't know...I think it will look a whole lot better once he gets the Boa constrictor pipes installed.
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Tote my Yorkie all the time: http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/PictureorVideo001-1.jpg All side streets to a local park...Never beyond 4'th gear either.
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Second hit on a Google search: http://www.reiffpreheat.com/Motorcycle.htm Don't personally know anything about these products though.
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Whatever happened to underground utilites? Maybe they've already added up the cost of converting a whole city and this immediately discouraged the idea. We don't get snow in Phx., but we do get really high winds in July and August and our elect. in the N.E. Valley is all underground, (except for the really big lines which are on enormous steel poles,) and power outages are rare. I wish they'd bury all of those frozen lines with tree limbs laying on them that I see on the network news. You'd think that it would be worth it in the long run.
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If I was the judge, J. Milano would be making pizza for his fellow inmates in the slammer for awhile.
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I frequently get up and leave the TV room when my wife was there watching with me. She sometimes says, "Aren't you going to watch the news?" but all I can toss back at her is, "No, I'm leaving because men are the stronger of the two sexs." She always takes it as a compliment, as intended.
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Harleys are frequently bought by people who become inseparably devoted to the bike no matter what, and built by a manufacturer that goes out of it's way to supply replacement parts on models that tend to stick around. That's partially why the initial purchase price is so heafty. I still believe though that metrics have a quality edge over HD's, but the very fact that so many Harleys keep rolling for decades has to say something for the make. Harley Davidson may be greedy, yes, but junk, never.
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Cool...Thanks for posting these great photos. The military life didn't look very boring in those shots!
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is another motorcycle accident right after the first one. Not gory: http://www.dpccars.com/motorcycle-09/01-07-09page-Motorcycle-accident-on-live-TV.htm Looked like the incoming rider got cut off, but was too anxious to get around another car that was pulling off to his left and didn't brake early enough for the merging white sedan. Victim #4 behind him was'nt much smarter....Very avoidable.
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Electric buffing wheel with white rouge compound! (When I can that is...)
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Castrol 4T Motorcycle Oil. Been using it happily for about 3 years now, and it even got rid of the famous "Honda tick" in my Sabre. (1100cc Honda vtwins are known for hydraulic adjuster ticking) I just don't get this though: At the two biker sites that I've known fairly well, the riders are ususally blown away by the ridiculous prices on bona fide motorcycle oil sold at the bike shops, and I don't blame them either. Well, I can't precisely remember just how much I pay for my 4 liter jug of Castrol 4 stroke dino motorcycle oil sold at Pep Boys Auto Parts, but it has always been very comparable to all of the other auto/truck oils that are sold right over on the next shelf. I'm happy.
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That one aught to be good for a lifetime of nightmares that will have them waking up in a cold sweat at 2:30 AM in the morning. As far as I'm concerned, they had some help there.
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How about some serious roadbiking? I never seem to see a fat rider on a good roadbike out here in Phoenix as they all tend to be lean. My other set of two wheels...Don't laugh, it works! http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/PictureorVideo038.jpg
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Honda has released their own "production chopper"
vtwinr replied to AmnChode's topic in Watering Hole
You would think that Honda would have learned something after the odd looking Valkyrie Rune, but the unorthodox bug must still be alive down at Honda. I'd take a Star Raider S in a heartbeat over that lean looking thing. -
Phoenix, AZ. It's been down to lows in the 40's F., (I open up a bedroom window at night,) and up to the 70's F. during the day. The bikers are having a ball out here, especially HD riders who tend to thin out some during those blazing summer afternoons. That's where a liquid cooled Royal Star would have an advantage though.
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"It's a mad, mad, mad, mad world" 1963 Gotta watch it at least once a year and always love it. All of those zany "merry makers" flying berserk around southern California in those enormous, late 50's and early 60's American gas hogs, and all after the loot hidden somewhere in Santa Rosita State Park under a "Big W", which park never even existed! Nothing quite like it for comedy, before or since. http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/twinbeachcraftstunt.jpg Paul Mantz flying a twin Beechcraft right through a highway billboard!
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Youtube video of dead birds being shot into a jet turbine engine. I think they said that some of them were up to 8 lbs. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2OS2pwrZTI]YouTube - BIRD VS. JET ENGINE (In Super-Slow-Motion)[/ame] I wonder how an old fashioned and less efficient radial would have fared?
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Your right! 32.8 trips all the way to and from the center of the Earth.
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260,000 miles on a 99??? That's 32.8 times around the Earth at the equator! So much as to doubts about the bike's integrity.
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Cool photo...Nothing worse than a bug right in your eye. My favorite: http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/dogonmotorcycle-1.jpg
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Poor Man's Brake lamp and turn signal upgrade
vtwinr replied to KiteSquid's topic in Poor Man Tips and Fixes
I did a "Poor Man's" LED accessory brake light on my present VT1100C2 at the sissy bar and it sure didn't cost me much. I bought one LED auto cluster bulb at Walmart, carefully split up the LED's separately, wired them into a piece of dielectric, chromed faced plastic sheet in a "V" configuration, set a piece of fluorescent ceiling light diffuse panel over them, and finally covered this with a dress insert of arched, Toastmaster toaster (!!!) chromed steel side panel. Works great: http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa167/hlaltimus/SissyBarLEDlight002.jpg -
At least 3 things I'd do different after some young gal pulled out right in front of me: #1 I'd practice braking and swerving more. I braked fairly well but still managed to catch her in the left rear quarter panel. Yep, just what you were predicting..."I didn't see you!" Looking back though, I don't think that I swerved aggressively enough as I should have just cleared her rear bumper. #2 I would dress with decent rider's boots, (which I now do,) as all I then had on were my shiney, black, church wingtips and I put a nice gash on one of them! (Big deal...) #3 I'd get a new bike with a nicer output at the stator coil, and that's part of why I'm here. I do have accessory lights on my present VT1100C2 Sabre, but your discouraged from using them for reasons of battery drain and that defeats their whole intent.